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Boris Pasternak is a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author, mainly
known in his homeland as one of the finest twentieth-century
Russian poets, but in the world at large almost exclusively as the
author of Doktor
Zhivago [Doctor Zhivago, first published in
1957].

Pasternak was born in Moscow, on 10 February 1890, into a
stimulating (secular Jewish, turned Russian intelligentsia)
artistic background. His father, Leonid Pasternak, was a leading
painter (apart from anything else, he was the illustrator of
Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection), while his mother, Rozaliia
Kaufman, had been before her marriage a gifted concert pianist.
Prominent …

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